Progress against the field
Between London Excel 2025 and Berlin 2026, Nicholas Atkinson kept pace with the field.
The clock says 1:44 faster, but the races themselves got 1:53 quicker for everyone.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Birmingham31 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:28 PB148/549Beat 73%
↑ 374 days after Birmingham 2025, with Sonia Lyon 2:56 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:13 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:17 faster for everyone, so 2:56 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:17 faster This pair5:13 faster -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:56424/686Beat 38%
↑ 59 days after London Olympia 2026 0:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:07 slower on the clock, and the race was 0:01 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:01 slower This athlete0:07 slower -
London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:28:49 PB439/716Beat 39%
↑ 110 days after London Excel 2025 0:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 1:51 faster on the clock, against 1:54 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:54 faster This athlete1:51 faster -
London Excel4 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:30:401869/2771Beat 33%
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Birmingham22 Oct 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:41364/889Beat 59%